Easy-plane XY spin fluctuations in the cycloidal magnet UPtGe studied via field orientation-dependent Pt NMR

Tokunaga, Yo  ; Nakamura, Ai*; Aoki, Dai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Honda, Fuminori*; Sakai, Hironori   ; Hattori, Taisuke; Kambe, Shinsaku  

Pt NMR measurements have been performed on a single crystal of the uranium-based compound UPtGe, which is the only 5f system known to possess an incommensurate helical (cycloidal) structure below TN = 50 K. Knight shift measurement confirmed the isotropic character of the static spin susceptibilities in hexagonal-like ac crystal planes of the EuAuGe-type crystal structure. The hyperfine coupling constants were also found to be isotropic in the planes. Nuclear relaxation rate measurement revealed the development of the antiferro-magnetic spin fluctuations with XY character confined to the hexagonal-like plane below 200 K. The results present a clear contrast to the Ising anisotropy of the fluctuations in ferromagnetic superconductors UCoGe and URhGe.